Data Center Registry
Echelon Data Centres Meridian (Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park)
Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi
Echelon Data Centres Meridian (Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park) is a proposed data center in Meridian, Mississippi (Lauderdale County), operated by Echelon Data Centres. The public record puts it at 300 acres.
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Facility record
Proposed
- Operator
- Echelon Data Centres
- Facility type
- Data center
- Location
- Meridian, Lauderdale County, MS
- Coordinates
- 32.3643, -88.7037 (approximate)
- Power capacity
- Not established from a public source
- Land
- 300 acres
- Investment
- Not established from a public source
- Announced
- Not established from a public source
- Utility
- Mississippi Power
- Power source
- Grid
- Cooling
- Not established from a public source
- Water use
- Not established from a public source
- Jobs
- Not established from a public source
- Public subsidy
- Not established from a public source
- Community reception
- No reception on record
- Source confidence
- Reported by at least one credible outlet or filing
Timeline from the record
Newest first. Record entries come from the filings and reports the registry cites. Coverage entries are headlines from publisher feeds we monitor daily, linked to the outlet; last checked September 14, 2026.
- February 15, 2026ProposedLauderdale County officials and Echelon signed a letter of intent for Echelon to buy about 300 acres (five parcels) south of Northeast Industrial Park Road in the Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park. A purchase agreement lists $20,000 per acre (about $6 million). The sale had not been finalized. Source: The Meridian Star
Opposition and litigation at this site
Nothing on record as of October 24, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Echelon Data Centres Meridian (Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park) in Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
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Power and water
Echelon is working with Mississippi Power to supply about 500 MVA to the site.
Notes on the record
This is a separate site from Compass Datacenters' Key Brothers Industrial Park campus (compass-lauderdale-meridian-ms), which the source places just south of it. The coordinates are Meridian city-level only. No MW, investment or end user has been disclosed, and the land sale was not confirmed closed as of the source.
What the record does not establish, and the document that would
In every fight on our tracker the decisive fact came out of a public records request. These are the requests for this site.
- Power capacity in megawatts
- Cooling method and water use
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- Permanent jobs promised
- How the community has received it
Which document closes each gap
- Power capacity in megawatts
- The utility's large load service agreement, the interconnection request in the grid operator's queue, or the electrical site plan in the permit file.
- Cooling method and water use
- The water service agreement, any groundwater appropriation permit, and the mechanical narrative in the site plan.
- Tax abatements or other public subsidy
- The abatement, PILOT, or development agreement approved by the county, city, or development authority, and the state's data center sales tax exemption certificate if one was issued.
- Permanent jobs promised
- The economic development application or incentive agreement, which usually states a job commitment and a clawback.
- How the community has received it
- Planning commission and governing body minutes, public comment records, and any petition or lawsuit filed in the county.
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Other sites within 30 miles
Distances are between recorded coordinates, many of which are a city or county centroid, so treat them as approximate. Cumulative load on one utility and one aquifer is the question a planning commission rarely asks.
- CleanSpark Meridian Bitcoin Mining Facility · Meridian · CleanSpark, Inc.under 1 mile · Operating
- Compass Datacenters Lauderdale County Hyperscale Campus · Meridian · Compass Datacentersunder 1 mile · Under construction · 500 MW · Mixed reception
Questions people ask about this site
Is there opposition to the Echelon Data Centres Meridian (Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park) data center in Meridian?
Nothing on record as of October 24, 2026. No lawsuit, organized opposition, or contested hearing over Echelon Data Centres Meridian (Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park) in Meridian, Lauderdale County, Mississippi appears in the sources this registry tracks. That is an absence in our sources rather than a finding that none exists, and local opposition often predates any coverage a national dataset would pick up.
Has anyone filed a lawsuit over the Echelon Data Centres Meridian (Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park) data center?
No lawsuit over Echelon Data Centres Meridian (Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park) appears in the record we track as of October 24, 2026. Residents most often reach a lawyer over water supply, well drawdown, noise from cooling plant, property value, or a rezoning approved without the notice the ordinance required. If any of that is happening near this site, it is worth a review whether or not a case has been filed yet.
How much water does Echelon Data Centres Meridian (Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park) use?
No water withdrawal figure for Echelon Data Centres Meridian (Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park) is on record here. Water use is rarely published voluntarily; it usually surfaces through a utility service agreement or a state withdrawal permit, both of which are public records. We leave the number blank rather than estimate one.
Who operates Echelon Data Centres Meridian (Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park), and how big is it?
Echelon Data Centres is the operator on record. No capacity figure is on record for this site. The site is recorded at 300 acres.
How to cite this page
SueDataCenters.org Data Center Registry, "Echelon Data Centres Meridian (Sonny Montgomery Industrial Park)," updated October 24, 2026, https://suedatacenters.org/data-centers/echelon-data-centres-meridian-lauderdale-ms.
Facility data from Compute Atlas (E. Kubiak), version 1.34.1 (October 4, 2026), licensed CC BY 4.0, record https://www.compute-atlas.com/facilities/echelon-data-centres-meridian-lauderdale-ms, retrieved October 29, 2026.
Corrections with a public source are welcome at the Compute Atlas record or through our contact page. The whole registry is available as CSV and JSON under CC BY 4.0.
Sources for this record
As compiled and cited by Compute Atlas, with our own reporting appended. Archived links are used where the original has moved.
- 1.Lauderdale County in talks for second data center investment · The Meridian Star · retrieved October 24, 2026
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